Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Virtual Machine (VM)
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 6.11% - 4.23%
As % of the System Software category 30.77% - 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £431 - £661
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £670
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £458 £525 £670
% change year-on-year -12.76% -21.64% -

All System Software Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 26 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 19.85% 8.67% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 14
10th Percentile £408 £473 £475
25th Percentile £451 £496 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £545 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +5.81% +20.91%
75th Percentile £607 £596 £669
90th Percentile £642 £621 £670
Cumbria median daily rate £496 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -5.49% +1.94% +20.89%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
1 8 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) MCSA
2 7 (87.50%) MCSE
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (87.50%) VCAP
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft